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Classical Liberalism has had a good run. Now it’s about to get run over by a bus full of stupid “post-capitalist” political trends—the new socialism, the new nationalism, the new trade war mercantilism, and the new social media platforms that drive this bus.
P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
What this country needs is fewer people who know what this country needs. We’d be better off, in my opinion, without so many opinions. Especially without so many political opinions. Including my own.
P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
The growth of politics is the opposite of the growth of liberty. When liberty grows we get increased individual enterprise and expansion of free markets. We create more goods, services, and benefits to society. The pie gets bigger. But politics is not about creating more goods, services, and benefits to society. Politics is about dividing them up.
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Also, lacking civil liberties and property rights, representative democracy is left with nothing to represent except the will of the mob or—as it’s called these days—“activism.”
P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
And how did our government get so bad? Bad politics. But how did our politics get so bad? Politics grew worse because politics grew.
P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
(total global debt is now $244 trillion, three times the size of the world economy)